Authors Exclusive Interview: Douglas the Poet Versus Joe the Plumber By Jason Boog on Oct. 31, 2008 - 4:23 PM Occupational metaphors packed Republican stump speeches yesterday, and the symbolic barrage climaxed when John McCain told a crowd: “Well, you’re all Joe the Plumber!” In an interview earlier this week, poet and ...
Events Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Coming Out Party By Neal on Oct. 31, 2008 - 3:04 PM Wednesday night, we stopped by the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt offices, just off Union Square, where they were throwing their first party since the union of the two venerable publishing houses late last year (or early this year, dep ...
Authors Dave Eggers Returns To Sudan By Jason Boog on Oct. 31, 2008 - 3:03 PM Readers rarely get a chance to explore the setting of their favorite book. For fans of What Is the What, Dave Eggers went back to the African village where the book’s hero once lived, creating a ten-minute video about the tr ...
Book Bix Mailbag Trick-or-Treat By Jason Boog on Oct. 31, 2008 - 2:03 PM Thank goodness for GalleyCat readers. You’ve filled our mailbag with goodies. Following our 2008 Whiting Writers’ Awards coverage, one reader sent us a copy of Barry Lopez’s keynote address at the awards–do ...
Publishing Bringing Book Publishing Up to Speed By Neal on Oct. 31, 2008 - 1:04 PM We wish we’d been able to get up to Boston University for Wednesday’s mini-conference on “the nonfiction book as the last best home for journalism,” but a write-up from the Nieman Journalism Lab gives us mu ...
Awards Books for a Better Life Nominees By Neal on Oct. 31, 2008 - 12:31 PM The New York City chapter of the National MS Society sponsors an annual “Books for a Better Life” awards ceremony—which also serves as a fundraising gala that over the last 12 years has generated more than $1.5 m ...
Book Biz Who Will You Put in the White House? By Neal on Oct. 31, 2008 - 12:01 PM More than 100 authors and illustrators contributed to Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out, a new book about U.S. presidential history, including Bob Kolar, who drew a timeline illustration of our first 43 presidents that also ...
Videos Aping Film Styles for Fun and Promotional Profit By Neal on Oct. 31, 2008 - 11:40 AM To recap the saga about an ancient battle between good and evil playing out among teenage vampires at an exclusive New York City prep school that began in Blue Bloods, Melissa de la Cruz sets up the release of book three (Revelati ...
Authors Whiting Winner Manuel Munoz on the Writing Vote By Jason Boog on Oct. 31, 2008 - 11:37 AM Even though he just won a $50,000 Whiting Writers’ award, author Manuel Munoz is looking for a President who can help his creative writing students. In this exclusive video, the young writer reflects on what the 2008 electio ...
Adaptation David Lynch To Take Book Online By Jason Boog on Oct. 31, 2008 - 10:23 AM Following the success of his 2006 book, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity, David Lynch is working on a web video series based on that print project. The brilliant director who once angrily opposed fil ...